55 Replies to “Peoples B Dumbr”

  2. I foresee Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good becoming as ubiquitous as Tim Hortons franchises.

    1. In my neighbourhood there’s a daycare centre called ‘Growing With Smile’. ‘And Without Grammar’ should be the subtitle. Same place where the plural of ‘blueberry’ is ‘blueberry’ – the Fraser Valley, beautiful BC.

    1. Sure does seem that way. I wonder how they will eventually communicate, will it be grunts and farts or just farts?

      2. But, seriously, though – as I recall from my college days, there were certain venues where belches, grunts and farts were the preferred method of communication.

        It’s just that that wasn’t the exclusive means of communication, and one had to be fluent at it as well. /;-)

  4. Well, why not? If you are going to forever pay people a living wage to not work, why on earth should we go to the effort of teaching them skills they would need for the jobs they won’t be doing?

  5. “an unfair challenge for students who do not test well.”

    I suggest it’s an unfair challenge to the stupid, the lazy and the uninterested.

    Also, beyond the grok of black kids, some Mestizo Hispanics and others who came here from the shit-holes of the world. But why drag the white American kids down with them. Why not a exclusive school for white kids and ‘inclusive’ schools for the chronically stupid.

    We will need smart people keep the infrastructure happening or your toys will stop working.

    Just wait until all these math-challenged idiots are running everything … oh wait … They already are.

    1. Why drag the other students down too??? It’s the ultimate realization of the Kommon Kore curricula… reduce education to its very lowest common denominator. Everyone gets an “A”, everyone graduates, and nobody learns anything that is useful in real life.

      1. At Armpit College, I was advised to gear my lectures to level of the poorest students. The department head who sold me that malarkey suggested that peer pressure would prevail and the least-motivated, least-talented of the lot would finally get their act together that way–an intellectual blanket party, in a way.

        In other words, all semblance of standards had to be abolished. Then again, that same DH never failed anyone. I recall one young lady who dropped out partway through his course still getting 50% simply for having shown up during that time.

  6. Good thing CA is actually ADDING graduation requirements.

    https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/california-school-district-mandates-ethnic-studies-course-based-on-crt/

    Now … every CA HS graduate must demonstrate proficiency in racism, err “ethnic studies”, err Critical Race Theory. Who needs reading, writing, and arithmetic in the 21st century. Sheeeeeiiiittt … all that junk can be dones on yo smart phone

    Next? A “Gender Studies” graduation requirement … because boys all need to acknowledge they are systemic rapists

    1. Next? A “Gender Studies” graduation requirement … because boys all need to acknowledge they are systemic rapists

      That’s not so far-fetched. I heard a similar story about my university alma mater.

      Apparently, the killing of those female engineering students by Gamal Gharbi (better known as Marc Lepine) more than 30 years ago was the fault of the profession. Consequently, male freshman engineering students were required to take a course on–get this!–“women’s issues”.

  8. Agree with rd. This is child abuse. Sending these students out into the world without basic skills is a road to a life of poverty, crime and substance abuse. This is also an indictment of teachers. Not all teachers but unfortunately, an increasing problem. Wonder where her two stepchildren have attended school? Betting that there is no way they have received a substandard education. Leftists proclaim that they are the ones who care about the children. Instead, they are perpetuating that their “Ivory Tower Trash” club ( thank you to the commenter here on SDA who came up with that) remain the ones in power.

    1. Sending these students out into the world without basic skills is a road to a life of poverty, crime and substance abuse.

      I was often severely reprimanded at Armpit College for being such a “harsh” instructor. I was told that I simply had to teach enough for the kiddies to get a “good job” and that their employers would take care of the rest.

      This is also an indictment of teachers.

      More correctly, it’s an indictment of the government educational policy and institutional administration that permit this.

      1. “More correctly, it’s an indictment of the government educational policy and institutional administration that permit this.”
        Agreed! But having negotiated with a local teachers union for 15 years, I quickly found out that the bargaining unit would happily throw students under the bus. Their only concern was themselves. It frustrated me that the quality teachers did not often want to get involved in the politics -their main focus was their students whom they served. The teachers on the bargaining committee were 100% devout NDP. Spoke numerous times with local MLA about reining in the power of the ATA but no one has the backbone to confront that problem.

        1. At Armpit College, there were always contractual negotiations going on. As I recall, every 2 (or was it 3?) years, the contract expired and a new one had to be negotiated. In between time, there was always haggling on the extras.

          Rumour had it was that the negotiating committee was more often concerned about including nice exit packages for its members in the contract rather than worrying about the educational staff as a whole.

          And, yes, more often than not, those who were concerned about doing their job properly didn’t get involved in the politics. Unfortunately, that’s where the big money was unless one wanted to go into management, where the pay was even better.

    2. Not so. Now the government will have no option but to give UBI to every “artist” “graduate” in the USA. The village will take care of these idiots.

  9. Seriously, I don’t know what is happening in Oregon. in 2015, Oregon passed a law allowing minors 15 and older to obtain puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries at taxpayers’ expense – and all this without parental consent.
    WTH!!!! Who are these people??? Never mind…overwhelmingly Democratic in the legislature.
    I’ve said it once I’ll say it again: You can trace Democrat migration routes right along the West Coast. These people leave progressive shitholes like California only to set up shop in other States where they can spread their goodness once again.
    If I didn’t know any better I’d say it was planned.

  11. Twenty years ago, I began my last round at Armpit College. The students I had back then could barely write a comprehensible sentence and many had next to no ability in algebra and trigonometry.

    I quit the following year and have no regrets about it. I shudder to think what I avoided by punching our when I did.

    1. I took Latin as part of my Classical Studies minor and the standard text is Wheellock’s Latin, which hasn’t changed much since the 1950’s. My textbook package included a slim primer on English grammar, authored by the eponymous professor, because he discovered that incoming undergraduates no longer had a good enough grasp of English grammar to understand the same structures, conjugations and tenses in Latin.

      The copyright date on the primer is 1979.

      1. Back in the 60’s, one of the texts we had (and was actually given to the students) was the “Plain English Handbook” by Walsh. I carried it with me through college and a BS degree in engineering, on through graduate school and an MS, and finally through a career in engineering and environmental compliance management.

        There were more comprehensive texts out there, but it was small enough to tuck in a desk drawer for reference when needed. It was so tattered when I retired that it finally made its way to the trash bin. I just looked on Amazon and it’s still available.

        1. At Armpit College, I penalized my students for grammatical and spelling mistakes, only to receive howls of protest that I wasn’t teaching an English course.

          Never mind the fact that one had to be correct when preparing drawings and work orders and that one had to get part numbers correct when ordering them.

          Nope. It was all about making the twerps feel good about themselves. And that was over 20 years ago.

  12. Don’t worry, scrot! Now there are plenty of ‘tards out there living really kick-ass lives! My first wife was ‘tarded…she’s a pilot now.

  13. Re: “Charles Boyle, the deputy communications director from Brown’s office, ………. He also said that the new standards for graduation will help benefit the state’s “Black, Latino, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”

    Talk about racism – Boyle has, in essence, come and publicly stated that all the various BIPOCs are too stupid to become proficient in language and math. I also note, Boyle should delete Asian (Chinese , Japanese and Koreans at least) from this list as they appear to be outpacing everyone in academic skills.

    1. The bigotry of low expectations is one of the true hallmarks of the left. And let’s not forget that according to them, Asians are “white-adjacent,” which I guess is supposed to explain their interest in deplorable values like personal responsibility, achievement, and generally acting like a fully functioning adult human being.

      Joseph Goebbels would have found the racism of the modern left something to envy.

  14. Only the educated are free – Epictetus (Stoic Greek slave during the time of the Roman Empire)

  16. Leftists are lowering the bar for colored people, telling us it will help color people, then they call us racists and white supremacists.

    Funny because lowering the bar is saying that colored are inferior to whites.

    But leftists are too stupid to see it…or are simply evil hypocrits.

    either way leftists are f***ed up people who belong in padded rooms.

    Here is my evidence,

    […}Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director, said in an emailed statement that suspending the reading, writing, and math proficiency requirements will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.” [… ]

    clearly they are saying colored are inferior… then they call us racist

  17. Just the continuation of the trend. The Eloi have surrendered their liberty for the illusions of all the things that comprise the human experience to be provided by the state. As VDH has surmised, the first few years of university are now devoted to remedial education for the failings of public education.

    1. As VDH has surmised, the first few years of university are now devoted to remedial education for the failings of public education.

      Quite often at Armpit College, I had to devote a significant portion of my course time teaching my students the background material they needed to know in order to understand what I was supposed to discuss in the actual curriculum.

      Oh, we had an upgrading program for people who were either lacking that background or had been out of high school for many years. The problem was that it was completely useless and, unfortunately, the students who took it didn’t learn a whole lot.

      I often complained about that. I was told that we had to “deal with” what we have. This was often brought to the attention of the upper administration and its attitude was that it wasn’t in the business of telling the K-12 system what to do and how to do it.

      Yup, there was a lot of butt-covering and guess on whose desk the crap would always land? Also, guess who got blamed if things didn’t work out?

      To be honest, I often wonder how I managed to avoid becoming an alcoholic while I was at that funny farm.

  18. This will accentuate the disparity they claim to want to address. Families who understand the importance of mathematical literacy will continue to insist that their children learn mathematics, whether it is in the school system or not. Private math tutors will be hired. Math homeschooling will occur in those households. Private schools will be flooded with STEM-seeking students.

    And those families who are indifferent or hostile to learning math will fall by the wayside, continuing if not accelerating their failing trajectory toward irrelevance in the modern working world. Just another example of how public services, unduly influenced by liberal cultural nonsense, will self-destruct and devalue themselves. Another classic socialism story.

    1. Private math tutors will be hired.

      There are fortunes to be made in keeping the educational system broken.

      1. The people running the public educational system show no interest in fixing it, only making it worse.

        The result will be that opportunities will be created outside the system.

  19. Peel District School Board (Missisauga/Brampton) will be implementing something similar. Apparently black students are falling behind in every category but rates of suspension and systemic racism is to blame according to community leaders and BLM…….yeah that has to be the reason.

  20. So if students are not required to learn anything, why are “teachers” needed? When do the mass firings begin?

  21. Well teachers got to keep teaching. These low bars are a reflection on them, not students.
    Wonder how many cheated their way through school and into college.
    Remember some of those ‘honour students’ you went to school with? I knew a few, who were the biggest cheaters going.

    1. At Armpit College, “student success” was, apparently, the sole reason for my being there. Any and all means to get the kiddies to pass was accepted, permitted, encouraged, and rewarded.

      That also includes cheating. I was told that the reason some of my students cheated was because I was too tough on them. That’s one reason course curricula are now watered down.

      Unfortunately, there aren’t any consequences any more. An ex-colleague of mine eventually quit and went to an AC counterpart in another part of the country. I remember him telling me in an e-mail message that he had the indignity one year of handing out graduation certificates to students that he himself had caught cheating.

      On top of that, it’s not worth to challenge students on their cheating. All they have to do is go whining to the department head and the incidents in question are simply made to go away. (“Cheating? What cheating?”) Worse, is when the little swines started playing lawyer, so there’s no sense of honour nor fair play left any more.

      As I mentioned earlier, I quit Armpit College nearly 20 years ago, so my comments go back to that era. I shudder to think what it’s like now.

      1. I read your posts about Armpit College with great interest, because the usual panacea for terrible public education is to privatize it. Yet your and Cappy’s experiences with for-pay colleges are of a piece, which implies you didn’t just get stuck at an unusual outlier of a school.

        What, in your opinion, failed at AC? Obviously there’s the internal politics and the milking of the students for tuition, which is the obvious motivation for the senior administration ignoring the problems. What market forces do you think might have corrected for this? Or is it simply an unavoidable trait of that market that there will be fraudulent schools?

        1. When I was a university undergraduate, starting in the early 1970s, there were expectations of me with regards to my work.

          By the time I had returned as a grad student, in the late ’70s/early ’80s, much of that had changed. For example, much of the rigor in, say, solving equations had been discarded. I started with a slide rule and finished with an HP-45 calculator, using the latter as a convenient successor to the former. Still, I was expected to show my work or provide sample calculations.

          That had changed in a few years and it’s become steadily worse. By being rigorous and precise with one’s work, one presents it in such a way that it demonstrated whether one understood what one was doing, plus it allowed a third party to check it.

          By the time I started teaching at AC in the late 1980s, that had disappeared. For example, I learned that I should write down my units while writing or printing out my calculations. Doing so ensured that the numbers used were consistent and had been written down properly.

          I was royally chastised by my students when I insisted on that and, yes, I often caught some of them–and penalized them for it–when they made mistakes.

          But that was only part of it.

          Somewhere in the 1980s came this dumb-assed notion of the student as “customer” and that ideology has infested the entire educational system now. Government and institutional administrators washed their hands of any responsibility, pushing the burden onto those who taught the course material.

          Along with that was the manner in which government “gravy” funding was awarded. Those institutions, those departments that showed high “customer satisfaction” parameters (cryptically called “key performance indicators”) were amply rewarded with extra money. There was always going to be funding to keep the lights on but this was extra and many institutions used that for bragging purposes. My last department head, obsessed with being promoted to dean, bent every rule he could to get that cash for us as it would have raised his profile with his superiors.

          Add to that the foolish notion that nobody is allowed to fail. Apparently, it damages one’s self-esteem and might discourage one from continuing, or some such horse puckey, and that was not allowed.

          What was forgotten was that failure sends a message. It might tell someone to pack up and do something else, something for which they are better suited. (An ex-colleague of mine told me stories about how he, while an administrator, booted out poor students. He said that some of them came back years later at, say, the institution’s open house and thanked him for doing them a favour.) On the other hand, it might give someone an incentive to work even harder, become more focused and to do whatever it legitimately took to succeed.

          Because education (or, more properly, “training”) has become a marketable commodity, there’s a financial incentive for institutions to lower their standards. (“If we don’t offer courses in medieval mud wrestling, Dinkledoodle University down the road will.”) By portraying themselves as schools where one can easily pass and, subsequently, graduate, they hope to attract even the intellectual flotsam and jetsam.

          And that’s what I had to deal with as an instructor. It wasn’t a whole lot different while I was a grad student in university, where money, and the status that comes with it, influences what goes on in individual departments.

          I could write a book on the subject, but I don’t think a lot of people would believe me. Besides, if I did succeed in writing and publishing it, I’d probably be subjected to all manner of lawsuits, claiming libel, defamation, and slander, and, worse yet, actually telling the truth about the system.

    2. I will agree with you in part.

      A successful education that forms a person into a well-rounded and useful individual also depends on that individual and his family life.

      If Student Joe Smith isn’t encouraged and/or taught by his parents or won’t get ahead because his teachers don’t want to deal with a gifted student, why work hard or at all?

  22. Foundations for a Better Oregon. Does that sound like a left wing circle jerk or what. If you are still in that state, rotsa ruck.

  24. Your Dems at work- ensuring that critical thinking and utilizing ones cranial capability is totally annihilated.

    Time to invest in Shovels and Picks….the only “carreer” Left for those that slime their way through the Wokeucation they are getting…& y’all Say goodby to STEM in Oregon.!! out of 100,000 thousand students: 99,990 will be enrolled in CRT and other assorted Leftist Destructive HORSESHIT.

    Utter Madness….& continuation of the ongoing destruction of Western Hemisphere Civilization – ’cause “RACISM”…right.??

  25. Anyone ever noticed that in matters like this, Allan S, UnMe etc have absolutely nothing to say? I’ll give them this much: they have just barely enough sense not to try defending the indefensible, which means they’re running out of things to support. 😀

  27. I live in Oregon and I was at a local bar when this came across the news. The bar is normally a sports bar but after this pile of poo hit there were political conversations throughout the room. The Gov. was referred to as an, “Idiot who is making life harder for fellow idiots” and ” What an embarrassing swamp weasel”. The discussion turned to the prayer groups that were attacked by Antifa and the fact that the police did not respond to calls of families being hit with pepper spray, and bricks and concrete blocks.

    Gun sales in Portland have gone up 90% and it’s hard to find ammunition. Nationally 8.4 millions new gun owners have joined the ranks of the armed. I wonder what the spark will be to set things off because we are having a hot, dry, tinder box summer and people have had enough harassment.

  28. In general the uneducated have always been more pliable for dictators to control. The end game is probably to eliminate all education other then some form of brainwashing.

    1. Let me modify that. It isn’t the uneducated that are more pliable, it’s the indoctrinated and that often includes those we nowadays call “educated.” I’ve met plenty of people not highly formally educated who were smart. Mazebright. Not at all without impressive BS sensors.

      On the other hand, I have never found that formal education alone is a sufficient defense against abject stupidity.

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